Monday, October 17, 2016

PE 15: eLive Workspace

INTRODUCTION

PE 15: eLive Workspace blog post is being presented as a companion blog post for the already published "PE 13/13.1 and 14/14.1: eLive Workspace" found HERE

ISSUE

eLive workspace has not been available in all countries. To give the "have not" users a view of what is currently being provided by Adobe in the eLive workspace, Premiere Elements 15 eLive Workspace choices and links are being provided.

eLIVE OFFERINGS PREMIERE ELEMENTS 15
(as of October 17, 2016; highlighted titles* and offerings below are same in 15 and 14/14.1)

Get Started With Premiere Elements 15
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/topics/getting-started-tutorials.html?trackingid=49F59S1L&mv=other
Learn Tab

Take A Quick Tour Of Premiere Elements 15
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere-elements/features.html?trackingid=ZP46FDBK&mv=other#prefeatureoverview
News Tab


It Was A Big Day Out For Little Ethan
Ethan's day at the farm park
https://vimeo.com/102371956
Inspire Tab

Create A Motion Path Using The Pan & Zoom Tool
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/how-to/create-motion-path-pan-zoom.html?set=premiere-elements--whats-new--2015-09
Learn Tab

School Is Back In Session
5 tips to instantly improve your video compositions
https://vimeo.com/blog/post/5-tips-to-instantly-improve-your-compositions
Learn Tab

Create Titles With Title Themes
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/how-to/create-titles-with-themes.html
Learn Tab

Arrange Clips In A Movie
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/archive/pre-11-tutorials/arrange-clips-movie.html
Learn Tab

Antarctica
Video with Antarctica theme
https://vimeo.com/124858722
Inspire Tab

The Adventures Of Walter The Office Pug
Video with "The Adventures of Walter The Office Pug" theme
https://vimeo.com/68704007
Inspire Tab

Memories Of Tokyo
Video with "Memories of Tokyo" theme
https://vimeo.com/130746973
Inspire Tab

Guidance At Every Step
Focus on Guided Workspace using Premiere Elements 14 video NOT 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOXS2jKli64&feature=youtu.be 
Learn Tab

Summer Memories
Video with "A Phantom Flex Summer Story"
https://vimeo.com/50296655
Inspire Tab

Tell Dazzling Stories With Motion Titles
Uses a Premiere Elements 14 video (NOT 15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYhDBn-iiLY
Learn Tab

Take A Quick Tour Of Premiere Elements 14
Video offered with Premiere Elements 14 (NOT 15) title and content for this lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99A9tE2oFBE
News Tab

Introducing Adobe Premiere Elements 14!
Offers "Introducing Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 & Premiere Elements 14 (NOT 15)
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/09/introducing-adobe-photoshop-elements-14.html 
News Tab

Share Your Videos
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/how-to/share-videos-youtube-facebook-vimeo.html
Learn Tab 

Create Your Own Movies
Offers a 13 video tutorial to focus in on Video Story feature (instead of 15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvl9tEmEwm8
Learn Tab 

Learn Time Lapse Photography Using Premiere Elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcF7DPARNXk
Learn Tab
(problem: no access to YouTube video since it is listed as private type)

Share Your Videos On Social Sites
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/how-to/share-videos-youtube-facebook-vimeo.html 
Learn Tab 

Stabilize Shaky Video
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/how-to/stabilize-shaky-videos.html
Learn Tab

Organize By Events 
https://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/using/events.html 
Learn Tab

Guided Edits
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/archive/pre-12-tutorials/guided-edits-video.html
Learn Tab

Sunday It Rained
Video with "Sunday it rained" theme
https://vimeo.com/113110919
Learn Tab

Create Effects Using Adjustment Layers
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/archive/pre-12-tutorials/apply-video-effects-adjustments-layers.html
Learn Tab

Use Mattes And Keys To Blend Videos Together
Video "Premiere Elements Mattes And Keys"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIkOy4dD4HI 
Learn Key

A Simple Clip Of A 3 Year Olds Perspective
Video "Blake"
https://vimeo.com/94278758 
Inspire Tab 

How To Add Multiple Effects To A Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkp3LwavS8E 
Learn Tab


Adding Audio Effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqmp8lHjdI4 
Learn Tab

Use Motion Tracking To Add Objects That Move With Your Subject
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/archive/pre-12-tutorials/spotlight-motion-tracking.html
Learn Tab

Suddenly I Feel Light
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/82123812
Inspire Tab

The World Beyond The World
https://vimeo.com/89216531
Inspire Tab

Swinging Solo: Video Love Letter #1
http://www.babymakingmachine.com/2013/12/swinging-solo-video-love-letter-1.html
Inspire Tab


Trampoline
https://vimeo.com/95686450
Inspire Tab

Adjust Your Video's Color With Auto Smart Tone
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/archive/pre-12-tutorials/adjust-video-color-brightness-auto-smart-tone.html
Learn Tab

3 Easy Ways To Make Movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvppYqs_sT8&index=2&list=PLPzkxRKAxnCAxJ2N6p0RQwGDrFJ7A6MFe
Learn Tab 

Easily Tell Your Big Life Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF4XMwa9PkE&list=PLPzkxRKAxnCAxJ2N6p0RQwGDrFJ7A6MFe&index=5 
Learn Tab 

Favorite Moments Fast Movies
Video focus is on Favorite Moments feature of program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km9gp6pYlCw&index=3&list=PLPzkxRKAxnCAxJ2N6p0RQwGDrFJ7A6MFe 
Learn Tab 

Smooth Out The Shakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_SWNma-Nw&feature=youtu.be
Learn Tab


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* The above information/content was captured on October 17, 2016 and is subject to change determined by Adobe. Some version 15 promotional offerings can be seen at this time in 14/14.1 eLive. It seems that e-Live is not a page copy that is used in 15 and 14/14.1 since the layout of the offerings is different in these versions at the same moment in time. It is also observed that many of the different offerings are presented to the user in a version of Premiere Element other than 15. Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit and Mozilla Firefox (version 49.0.1) were used in this presentation.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

PE 15: Keyboard Shortcuts

INTRODUCTION

For all intents and purposes the keyboard customization (Edit Menu/Keyboard Customization/Application & Window) are the same in Premiere Elements Windows 15 and 14/14.1. Minor exceptions include
  • Edit Menu/Keyboard Customization/Application/Help where "Reveal Logs Folder" is in 15, but not 14/14.1.
  • Edit Menu/Keyboard Customization/Windows/Timeline Window where Command/Shortcut for Razor Tool (C) and Selection Tool (V) are found in 14/14.1 but not 15.
ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS FACTORY DEFAULTS FOR VERSION 15*

Since for all intents and purposes the keyboard customization (Edit Menu/Keyboard Customization/Application & Window Commands/Shortcuts are the same, for 15 refer to the 14/14.1 keyboard commands/shortcuts found HERE.

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* The information above has been triple checked (15 against 14/14.1), and it believed to be inclusive.

ATR

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Premiere Elements 15 First Look

INTRODUCTION

An announcement of the Premiere Elements 15 release has just been seen today October 5, 2016 online. Some initial findings on the release were noted at

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere-elements.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/system-requirements.html

http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/adobe-photoshop-elements-15-premiere-elements-15-released/

Full "First Look" details of the new release will be focused on in this blog post. Besides the details of the new release, comparison of it to the prior version (14/14.1) will be made in depth - "What is New" and "What Is the Same".

Premiere Elements 15 Windows 64 bit is currently being downloaded from the Adobe web site.
It appears to be a 2 GB file named PremiereElements_15_LS31_win64.exe. At Internet speed of 4.6 MB/second, the completion of the download took less than 10 minutes. Download was from
http://www.adobe.com/downloads.html
(to see Premiere Elements 15 on that download page, click on "view all available free trials" at bottom left)


Coming soon.

ATR


INTRODUCTION

Today October 11, 2016 let us begin the First Look of the Premiere Elements 15 tryout (using Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit which Adobe lists as compatible with Premiere Elements 15).

Premiere Elements 15 First Look Details to follow will include
PART 1. New And Different
PART 2. Export And Share
PART 3. Content
In the course of this First Look, comparisons will be made to the prior version named Premiere Elements 14/14.1. This report will be entered in these PARTS in installments. This will be a work in progress until this blog post is labelled as completed.

The tryout was installed on October 5th, and a new project opened to its Expert workspace. No work was done in that initial project. When the tryout was opened to a new project today October 11th, Premiere Elements 15 tryout gave the message that Premiere Elements 15 was not working. A run through with the cleaner part of  the free ccCleaner appeared to resolve the issue so that I could begin the First Look. 

PART 1. 
New And Different

1. Workspaces 
The 15 and 14.1 workspace headers are the same eLive, Quick, Guided, and Expert.
The actual 15 Guided workspace has been sectioned into Basic, Video Adjustments, Audio Adjustments, and Fun Edits.

Basic
  • Get started
  • Trim & split clips
  • Add Transitions between clips
  • Add Title to your movie  
Video Adjustments
  • Fix Brightness, Color & Contrast 
  • Color Pop 
  • Animate Graphics 
  • Add Adjustment Layer  NEW
Audio Adjustments
  • Add Narration 
  • Add a music score 
Fun Edits
  • Add a Video in Title 
  • Create Slow or Fast Motion Effect
  • Create a Picture-in-Picture (PIP) 
  • Apply an Effects Mask
Besides the lessons being categorized, there appears to be one more lesson in 15 as compared to 14/14.1. New in 15 seems to be "Add Adjustment Layer" (thus 14 lessons in 15 and 13 lessons in 14/14.1).


2. Expert Workspace
a. The Edit area monitor's bounding box (image's blue outline) is now allowed to be seen outside as well inside the area of the monitor space.  This was not true for Premiere Elements 14/14.1.

b. The bottom horizontal options bar of 14/14.1 (Tools, Transitions, Titles & Text, Effects, Music, and Graphics) is gone and replaced with a vertical bar with Fix, Edit, and Add sections displaying on the right edge of the workspace.

Fix
  • Icon for access to Smart Fix, Shake Reduction, Auto Smart Tone, Color, Color (RGB), Gamma Correction), Lighting, Temperature and Tint, Volume, Balance, Treble, Bass, Audio Gain...this icon looks the same as the Adjust Tab icon used in 14/14.1.
  • Icon for access to Video/Freeze Frame, Movie Menu, Pan & Zoom, Smart Trim, Time Remapping, Favorite Moments, Motion Tracking; Audio/Audio Mix, Narration, Smart Mix...this icon looks the same as the Tools Tab icon used in 14/14.1.
Edit
  • Icon for access to Motion Palette and Opacity Palette...this icon contains the graphics of fx and pen and was not seen previously.
  • Icon for access to Video and Audio fx Effects...this icon looks the same as the fx Effects Tab icon used in 14/14.1.
  • Icon for access to Video and Audio Transitions...this icon looks the same as the Transitions Tab icon used in 14/14.1.
Add
  • Icon for access to the Motion Titles and Classic Titles...this icon looks the same as the Titles & Text Tab icon used in 14/14.1.
  • Icon for access to Music Scores and Sound Effects...this icon looks the same as the Music Tab icon used in 14/14.1.
  • Icon for access to Graphics...this icon uses a smiley face whereas a boat was used for the Graphics Tab icon in 14/14.1.
No way has been found so far to reorient the bar from vertical right to bottom horizontal (neither in Preferences nor mouse maneuvers).  In "b", going from 14/14.1 to 15, choices appear to be relocated rather than discontinued. More on this in the CONTENT PART.

c. The major headers are the same in 15 as in 14/14.1 (Add Media, Projects Assets, Create, and Export & Share). However, 15 now has a new feature "Video Collage" which joins 14/14.1's choices of Video Story and Instant Movie under the Create major header. See HERE for initial details of this Video Collage feature. First Looks suggests that these Video Collages created in the feature can be saved as a .vc file to the hard drive or sent to the project's Timeline, or sent to Export & Share. These vc files appear to be usable in 15 only. More "Video Collage" information coming later in this blog post.
Note: The Elements Organizer 15 still has the Create Menu/Slideshow option including a Save to 720p or 1080p mp4 file with AVCHD format or to Facebook. Adobe has not gone back to the Elements Organizer format/layout seen in Premiere Elements 12/12.1 and earlier.

d. For all intense and purposes the menus and their choices at the top left of the Expert workspace (File, Edit, Clip, Timeline, Text, Tools, Window, and Help) are the same in 15 and 14/l4.1. The only exception found so far is the inclusion of a "Reveal Logs Folder" choice under the Help Menu in 15.

3. Quick Workspace
The 15 Quick and Expert workspace both deviate from 14/14.1 in that both workspaces have
  • 14, not 13, Guided lessons
  • The bottom horizontal options are replaced with options displaying in a vertical bar on the right edge of the workspace.
4. Question Mark Icon To Right Of Marker Setting Area Of Expert And Quick Workspaces 
Both the Expert and Quick workspaces show a question mark icon to the right of the marker setting area. Clicking on the icon takes the user
In Expert workspace
Adobe Premiere Elements Help/Arranging Clips in the Expert View Timeline
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/using/arranging-clips-expert-view-timeline.html 

In Quick workspace
Adobe Premiere Elements Help/Arranging Clips in the Quick View Timeline
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/using/arranging-clips-quick-view-timeline.html

5. Camera Raw
The Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 and Adobe Premiere Elements 15 tryouts were each received with Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 9.6.0.625 with the option to update to Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 9.7. See Premiere Elements 15 Help Menu/Updates.

6. "What's New" In 15 According To An Adobe Web Page Description.
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere-elements/features.html?trackingid=BDDS3P45&mv=other#x 
Access to the new fx effect "Haze Removal" can be found via the right vertical bar's Edit section/fx icon/Video/Advanced Adjustments. Adjustments for this and other fx effects can be accessed via that Edit section/icon for reviewing and editing Applied Effects. Adobe details of its Haze Removal fx effect can be found HERE. See HERE for Adobe's overall "What's New" for Premiere Elements 15.

Commentary
The above covers "surface" areas of the program. In what follows, a First Look will be taken into the deeper aspects of the Premiere Elements 15 features and workflows.
Last edit made October 14, 2016.
 

PART 2.
Export & Share

For all intents and purposes the Export & Share down to the export choices and export default settings of 15 is the same as for 14/14.1. Consequently, refer and use the already detailed 14/14.1 Export & Share information. Premiere Elements 14 First look PART 2 - EXPORT & SHARE (Quick Edit, Devices, Discs, Online, Audio, Image) is found HERE. A minor exception is that 15's Export & Share/Online/YouTube has choices of 1920 x 1080, 1280 x 720, or 640 x 480 upload; whereas 14/14.l has Export & Share/Online/YouTube uses upload of 1920 x 1080, 1440 x 1080, or 640 x 480.

The Export & Share headers, export choices, and default settings have been looked at one for one 15 versus 14/14.1 and found the same. This 15 First Look has not gotten into whether or not 15 Export & Share exports work worse, the same, or better than 14/14.1.

PART 3.
Content

Movie Menus
Tools Menu/Movie Menu

The movie menu choices are the same in 15 and 14/14.1. Consequently see the Premiere Elements 14 First Look blog details for this already described content.
http://atr935.blogspot.com/2015/09/premiere-elements-14-first-look-details.html

Instant Movie Themes
Create/Instant Movie

The Instant Movie theme choices are the same in 15 and 14/14.1. Consequently see the Premiere Elements 14 First Look blog details for this already described content.
http://atr935.blogspot.com/2015/09/premiere-elements-14-first-look-details.html
Like 14/14.1, version 15 continues to use the flawed Instant Movie theme named Outdoor Adventure. This theme is characterized by scattered footage of colorful media offline message. See HERE for our suggested how to fix this issue.

Transitions
Right Vertical Bar/Edit Section/Icon For Access To Transitions

The Video and Audio transition selection are the same in 15 and 14/14.1. Access to these transition can be via the right vertical bar and its icon for transition under the Edit section there.

fx Effects
Right Vertical Bar/Edit Section's fx Icon

Video and Audio fx Effects of 15 appear to be the same as for 14/14.1 with the exception of introduction of the fx effect named Haze Removal in 15. See 15's right vertical bar's Edit section/icon for fx Effects and icon for viewing and editing fx Effects.

Music (Music Scores and Sound Effects)
Right Vertical Bar/Add Section Music Icon

The Music Scores and Sound Effects choices appear to be the same in 15 and 14/14.1 and are accessed in 15 via the right Vertical Bar/Add Section/icon for music.

 Graphics (Clip Arts)

The graphics (clip arts) choices appear to be the same in 15 and 14/14.1 and are accessed in 15 via the right Vertical Bar/Add Section/smiley face for the Graphics Tab icon.

Titles or Text
Right Vertical Bar/Add Section

The Classic Titles choices appear to be the same in 15 and 14/14.1 with regard to design of choice as well as its file name. In the case of the comparison of 15 and 14/14.1 Motion Titles comparison, "Same" except for
  • a missing "lower third" file for Motion Title/Fun/Sports in 15
  • difference between 15 and 14/14.1 with regard to file name for same file presenting in each (See Motion Titles/Fun or Decorative/motion title thumbnails and associated file names
  • question about Custom category appearance in the Motion Titles list of Contempory, Decorative, Formal, Geometric, Typography, "Custom". 

ELEMENTS ORGANIZER 15 CREATE/SLIDESHOW FEATURE AND THEMES

The Elements Organizer 15 and 14/14.1 Create/Slideshow feature have the same format which is unlike that which Adobe uses in Premiere Elements 12/12.1 and earlier. The 7 Elements Organizer Slideshow theme are the same for 15 and 14/14.1 (Classic Dark, Array, The Minimalist, Memories, Album, Party Poppers, and Holiday Season.

COMMENTARY

Significant similarities between 15 and 14/14.1 seem striking. So why a Premiere Elements 15 First Look when the point back for details is to Premiere Elements 14/14.1 First Look? It is being decided whether or not to end the 15 First Look and then target the individual Premiere Elements 15 workflows in order to determine the depth of the 15 and 14/14.1 similarities. Although the "same", does the same feature in each of these versions work better, worst, or the same?

To be continued....


ATR



Premiere Elements 15 Daily Discoveries

INTRODUCTION

Announcement of the release of Premiere Elements 15 was just seen online.
This blog post "Premiere Elements 15 Daily Discoveries" is the companion blog for Premiere Elements 15 First Look found HERE.

Work in progress.

Full details coming soon.

ATR

Let Us Begin....October 15, 2016.

INTRODUCTION

001. Helpful Links
Learn & Support/Adobe Premiere Elements Help
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/using/topics.html 

Adobe Premiere Elements 15 Help PDF
https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/premiere-elements_reference.pdf

Adobe Premiere Elements/Download Adobe Premiere Elements 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/kb/premiere-elements-downloads.html 
Note: Although the link title here does not include downloads for versions 9 and 8, there appears to be downloads for versions 9 and 8 included at this location.

Return, cancel, or exchange an Adobe order
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/return-cancel-or-change-order.html 
Note: Read link content carefully, and confirm with seller. Best interpretation of link is full return within 30 days of Adobe Premiere Elements 15 purchase from Adobe direct. If interpretation is correct, it looks like Adobe's return past history on this has gone from 30 to 14 and currently back to 30 days for the Premiere Elements 15 product.

Adobe Premiere Elements Help / What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 15?
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/using/whats-new.html#elive

Adobe ID Account And Sign-In Troubleshooting
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/account-password-sign-help.html


002. Movie Menu "Outdoor Adventure"
The Movie Menu named Outdoor Adventure continues to be flawed with patches of media offline footage. See HERE for details.

003. The "Best Fit" Automatic Setting Of Adobe Project Presets In 15 Versus 14/14.1.
  • The Adobe NTSC and PAL project presets are the same for 15 and 14/14.1
  • There is no place during the program installation for user to set for a NTSC or PAL TV Format
  • If an imported video's properties do not match one of the existing Adobe project presets, the program grabs a "closest fit" project preset rather than defaulting to NTSC AVCHD Full HD1080i30 project preset as it did in earlier versions of Premiere Elements. Version 15 and 14/14.1 appear to behave the same in this regard. See HERE for more details on "closest fit" and "default" project presets.
004. The 4K Sizes 4096 x 2160 (Adobe project preset not available) And 3840 x 2160 (Adobe project preset available).

Premiere Elements supports H.264 4K 3840 x 2160, but not 4096 x 2160. To consider...one suggested way for editing 4K 4096 x 2160 video
  • set the project preset manually (File Menu/New/Project) to the 3840 x 2160 (NTSC AVCHD- QFHD-16 x 9 29.99)
  • and, at export, use Export & Share/Device/Custom (including Advanced Settings for H.264, Square Pixels, 4096 x 2160 with width and height not linked), Profile = High, Level = 5.2.

005. Premiere Elements 15: The Imported Audio Clip's Duration Displayed In Project Assets And In The Timeline

The details in the blog post "PE 12: Audio Display Formats - Audio Samples and Milliseconds" found HERE applies to Premiere Elements 12 through 15. Consequently, please refer to that blog's Table named Premiere Elements 12 for 15 data.

The user is accustomed to video clip duration displaying in the format 00;00;00;00 (hours;minutes;seconds;frames). In contrast, audio clip duration displaying as 00;03;20;38880 or 00;03;20.881 is pointed to and discussed.

006. Expanded Search Field for Elements 15 eLive.

eLive previously offered Search using drop down list of categories for Everything, Inspire, Learn, and News. Now in version 15 is found Search with type in field as well as the choice categories of Inspire, Learn, and New in a drop down list. See HERE.

007. Music Remix Feature - New to Premiere Elements 15 - User Music (Non Adobe Music Score) Duration Increased Or Decreased "Without Losing The Continuity Of The Audio Content".

See HERE. Separate blog post will be devoted to this topic soon. First look at this feature suggests that the User Music needs to be dragged to the Music Track (not Audio Track) for this to work.



Work in progress.

ATR